אַשְׁדּוֹדִי
Ashdodite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (50%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (33%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H796 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 5:3 אַשְׁדּוֹדִים֙ n Gentilic mp When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 הָ/אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it.
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 4:7 וְ/הָ/אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
- Nehemiah 13:23 אשדודיות אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת n Gentilic fp n Gentilic fp In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אשדודי — transliterated ʼAshdôwdîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ashdodite.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses concentrate in 1 Samuel (40% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Joshua 13:3. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H796 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ashdod 2×
- American Standard Version: Ashdod 2×, Ashdodites 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ashdod 2×, People of ashdod 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ashdodites 3×, Ashdodite 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H796 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H796 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H796 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H796 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ashdodites = "I will spoil"
- an inhabitant of Ashdod
Word origin
Derived from אשדוד (ʼAshdôwd) (H795) — Ashdod.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H796 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 13:23 | 1 |
| אַשְׁדּוֹדִים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 5:3 | 1 |
| אשדודיות | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 13:23 | 1 |
| הָ/אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 5:6 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 4:7 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/אַשְׁדּוֹדִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 13:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H796, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
